Hooggelegen has been in the family for over five generations and is one of the oldest family-owned wine farms in the Durbanville area. The VOC installed more than 50 cannons on hills and mountains around the Cape to form a signal gun chain that could call the Burgher Militia to defend the Cape.
This signal gun chain extended from Signal Hill, Cape Town via Durbanville to Citrusdal in the North West, Worcester in the north and via Tygerberg to Suurbraak beyond Swellendam in the east. We still have the original Signal Gun on our farm and use this cannon and a few others that are still in good working order to fire shots on joyous occasions.
Tasting Notes
Tropical flavours on the nose with very prominent guava, green fig, and gooseberries.
The tropical flavour follows through on the palate and the wine finishes with an elegant acidity on the palate.
Food Pairing
Enjoy with crisp summer salads, seafood, and chicken dishes!
Accolades
If you're reading this, you're one of our favourite kind of people: the kind that take time out of their public holiday to scout for deals.
To clarify, we love it when people shop on work days too, but that's different. You're obliged to look at your screen for 8 hours on those days, of course you're going to visit your favourite sites between emails.
But today you could have done anything.
And yet instead of going skydiving or wine tasting or off-road canoeing, you're here. Thanks for that.